The Cauldron Descends upon the Primordial, All Artifacts Return to Their Source
Yuan Xuangu slowly raised his head, his gaze falling upon the Realm Devouring Heaven Burning Cauldron high above the nine heavens. At this moment, his aura had completely subsided, devoid of any killing intent. Only an old man who had cultivated for millions of epochs was unleashing the most powerful move of his life. He slowly spoke, "Senior, this move is the culmination of my life's work. If you can withstand it, Senior, then Yuan Xuangu will have no regrets in this life."
Having said that, he slowly raised his hands, his ten fingers constantly shifting, and ancient Dao seals continuously condensed, the entire world seemingly resonating with his hand seals. Then, Yuan Xuangu's aged voice slowly resounded throughout the world. "Original Divine Power—" "Eternal Return to the Ruins - Primordial Burning Realm." As the name of the divine power fell, the entire world suddenly fell into a deathly silence.
This divine power does not destroy the world, but rather sends the target back to the Primordial Unborn. The Realm Devouring Heaven Burning Cauldron no longer refines the physical body, Fate Soul, and laws, but rather the entire "evolutionary process" of the target's existence. Once swallowed by the cauldron, the target will be forcibly sent into the "Primordial Furnace" to undergo the primordial refining before the Great Dao was born. All divine powers, laws, causality, destiny, and origin will continuously return to their original state within the cauldron until they completely return to the state Unborn.
In the Primordial Furnace, everything within the area covered by the cauldron's mouth is dragged into its evolutionary space, continuously refined within the Primordial Origin Divine Flame. Through the Burning Realm Return to Origin, the cauldron can extract the Great Dao's essence from the target's surroundings, transforming the entire world into its own furnace, constantly enhancing its divine power. With the Fusion of All Laws, no matter what divine power the opponent employs, it will be continuously refined by the Primordial Divine Flame within the cauldron, ultimately becoming nourishment for the cauldron.
It is specifically designed to counter cultivators who rely on the Great Dao, the Origin, the Laws, and divine weapons. As long as "evolution" exists, it can be reversed back to the "Primordial" and reforged... The next moment, Yuan Xuangu suddenly clasped his hands together, and with a bang, the Realm Devouring Heaven Burning Cauldron shook violently. The three-colored divine flames at the mouth of the cauldron instantly soared into the sky. The blue flames froze the Great Dao, the red flames burned all laws, and the purple flames devoured the Origin.
The three divine flames intertwined and eventually merged into a gray-gold Primordial divine flame. The entire divine cauldron began to truly awaken, and countless ancient divine patterns on its body lit up. Two ancient dragons that had been coiled around the cauldron's ears raised their heads at the same time. A deafening dragon roar resounded across billions of miles of heaven and earth. Then, from within the mouth of the cauldron, an ancient figure slowly stood up.
He was not made of flesh and blood; his entire being was formed from the Primordial Divine Flame. He wore a Nine-Dragon Divine Crown, and his long hair flowed down his shoulders like a river of fire. In his eyes, two divine flames, one blue and one red, burned continuously. He wore Primordial Cauldron Pattern Divine Robe, and with each step he took, countless cauldron patterns bloomed beneath his feet.
His body was covered with ancient bronze patterns, as if the entire Realm Devouring Heaven Burning Cauldron had transformed into human form—it was the spirit of the Realm Devouring Heaven Burning Cauldron. The spirit slowly opened its eyes. Its gaze fell on Yuan Xuangu, then it nodded gently. "A million epochs." "You have finally awakened me again." Yuan Xuangu slightly clasped his hands in a fist. "Please, senior, help me in this final battle."
The spirit of the artifact slowly raised its right hand, and the entire Realm Devouring Heaven Burning Cauldron instantly transformed into countless Primordial Divine Runes. These divine runes continuously merged into Yuan Xuangu's body. At the same time, Yuan Xuangu Xuan Gu's Fate Soul essence also began to slowly merge into the divine cauldron. At this moment, it was not Yuan Xuangu controlling the divine cauldron, nor the divine cauldron driving Yuan Xuangu, but a true Human Cauldron and Return to One.
The spirit of the artifact, the divine cauldron, and Yuan Xuangu were completely fused together. Boom! The Fate Soul lost its color. Countless rivers of the Great Dao were sucked into the divine cauldron. Billions of stars began to collapse. The entire ancestral land of the Ancient God Clan seemed to transform into a giant cauldron. Gray-gold Primordial divine flames swept across the world. A cauldron shadow that spanned the heavens and the earth slowly appeared behind Yuan Xuangu.
Then, Yuan Xuangu slowly raised his right hand and gently pushed forward. Without a deafening roar or a violent impact, the Primordial Cauldron that covered the heavens and earth slowly pressed down on Qin Yu.
Before the cauldron even arrived, heaven and earth had already begun to return to the Primordial, the Great Dao began to extinguish, the laws began to dissipate, and even time slowly stopped flowing. This strike truly represented the foundation of the Great Dao spanning millions of epochs. However, just as the Realm Devouring Heaven Burning Cauldron was less than a hundred feet away from Qin Yu still stood there quietly, his expression unchanged.
Before he could even make a move, at that moment, deep within his sea of consciousness, the Star Wancai Key, which had been dormant, suddenly trembled slightly. Buzz—there was no light, no fluctuation of the Great Dao, only an absolute rule that transcended all things slowly awakened. It did not materialize, but simply floated quietly in the deepest part of Qin Yu's foundation.
The next instant, a supreme principle that none of the myriad paths of the heavens could resist silently descended. This principle was called the Method of Returning External Objects to Stillness. Targeting the Realm Devouring Heaven Burning Cauldron, the principle deduced its origin and root cause on its own. After a series of deductions, it was determined that there was no innate divine soul, flesh, or bone structure within the cauldron.
This object is an acquired artifact from another world. At this moment, it is locked in a fierce confrontation with the person who holds the key, repeatedly resisting him. After the cause of the conflict has been deduced, the Great Dao of Returning External Objects to Stillness and fully manifests its power in the world!
At the same moment, a profound and ancient law slowly unfolded, the principle of predetermined authority, the power of tracing back to the source.
It's not just about observing the cauldron's current form, but about tracing back its intricate causal threads, reversing the rise and fall of millions of eras, traversing the ancient, sealed domains left behind by the Primordial, crossing countless endless years, and going upstream... all the way to the very origin of the Realm Devouring Heaven Burning Cauldron, forged in the furnace and born from chaos! Two supreme Dao rules and principles have completely enveloped this world.
Yuan Xuangu and the Realm Devouring Heaven Burning Cauldron had long since Man-Cauldron Unity, the cauldron's body pressing down on heaven and earth, and the gray-gold Primordial divine flames covering the entire ancestral land of the Ancient God Clan.
The aura of the cauldron spirit and Yuan Xuangu completely merged into one. Before the attack had even truly landed, the entire God-Defying Heavenly Abyss had already begun to tremble slightly. Countless mountains in the distance collapsed inch by inch, and muffled rumbling continuously came from the depths of the earth, as if the entire world was about to be transformed into a furnace of firewood in this divine cauldron.
However, Qin Yu remained standing there, dressed in Qingyi, without taking a single step back. His gaze remained fixed on the ever-approaching Realm Devouring Heaven Burning Cauldron. Just as the cauldron was less than a hundred feet away from him, the Star Wancai Key, which had been quietly dormant deep within Qin Yu's sea of consciousness, finally trembled slightly.
There was no radiance, no earth-shattering phenomena, not even a trace of spiritual energy fluctuation; only an ancient will that transcended all things, transcended time, and transcended the Great Dao slowly awakened at this moment.
That wasn't power, but rather a primordial order that existed long before the birth of all the heavens and myriad worlds... The next moment, the world suddenly fell silent, the wind stopped, the thunder ceased, and even the raging Primordial divine flames slowed down considerably. The Realm Devouring Heaven Burning Cauldron suddenly trembled slightly.
The cauldron spirit's originally majestic expression suddenly changed. He lowered his head because he saw that the cauldron patterns beneath his feet were beginning to dim little by little. It wasn't because it was under attack or suppressed. Rather... the very source of its existence was slowly fading away. At the same time, the endless river of time suddenly unfolded from the depths of the void.
No one can touch it, yet it truly reflects every era since the birth of the Realm Devouring Heaven Burning Cauldron. It shows what it looked like when it was first conceived in the Primordial chaos, the first time it was born with artifact patterns, the first time it possessed sentience, the first time it conceived an artifact spirit, and the first time it fought alongside its first master across the heavens. All its experiences over millions of epochs are now fully revealed.
However, in the next instant, those images began to slowly reverse, ten thousand years, one hundred thousand years, one million years, ten million years... Time continued to flow backward, and the cauldron spirit suddenly widened its eyes. It watched as its hands began to become transparent, and then its arms, body, and even consciousness began to turn into tiny starlight bit by bit.
The starlight did not dissipate in the slightest; instead, it swayed against the current, drifting towards the deepest part of time. In a daze, the spirit of the cauldron felt a strange illusion—it seemed as if it was about to return to the origin where chaos had not yet been created and all things had not yet been conceived.
"No..." For the first time in countless ages, the spirit of the cauldron felt Ultimate fear. It hurriedly lowered its head and stared at its own body. The Source Artifact patterns that had crisscrossed its chest and accompanied it through millions of epochs were dimming and disappearing inch by inch. Its voice trembled violently, unable to hide the fear in its heart.
"No... It's not a complete annihilation of body and soul..." "This is..." "The return of all things to their origin!" He finally understood. What happened at this moment was not destruction, but... his own existence was Return to One began. Just as the spirit of the cauldron was almost completely transformed into starlight, that supreme ancient will suddenly stopped.
There was no further movement. All the starlight slowly coalesced again, the cauldron patterns reappeared, and the spirit's almost transparent body regained some of its outline. However... it no longer possessed the majestic aura that had once looked down upon the world. Its whole body trembled violently, and its eyes, burning with Primordial divine flames, were now filled with an unprecedented fear.
It finally understood that if that thought had been even slightly directed at it, it would not have been able to continue existing. In fact, even the cause and effect from the very beginning of its existence could have been completely erased.
Unlike methods of crushing or suppressing, this is the power of the Great Dao that traces back to the root cause and eliminates the cause. With just a gentle wipe, it can erase all traces of its existence in the world, leaving no evidence whatsoever of its existence.
The cauldron spirit slowly raised its head and looked at Qin Yu, but the moment its gaze was about to meet Qin Yu's, its body trembled violently, and it subconsciously lowered its head. It dared not look directly at Qin Yu anymore. It was a fear that came from the deepest part of its being, like a speck of dust that dared not look up at the entire starry sky.
... On the other side, Yuan Xuangu was completely frozen. His hands were still in the posture of activating the divine cauldron, but his soul was already in turmoil. He saw with his own eyes that his greatest trump card, the Primordial Origin Supreme Treasure had accompanied him for millions of epochs, had not even been able to truly touch Qin Yu, but had only managed to get close.
He nearly returned to the beginning of time, Unborn of heaven and earth. Yuan Xuangu slowly lowered his head, his body beginning to tremble slightly, not out of fear of death, but because... for the first time, he had truly witnessed what it meant to be an incomprehensible being. Yuan Zhanxiao, standing to the side, was already deathly pale, his lips trembling incessantly.
His knees slammed to the ground once more, and he was completely lost in thought. He stared at the Realm Devouring Heaven Burning Cauldron, which still floated in the sky but no longer possessed any divine power, and then at Qin Yu had always stood still and had never actually made a move.
His mind was completely blank, and the spirit of the cauldron was trembling violently. He slowly took a step back, then another, and finally dissipated all his divine flames. He silently retreated to the Realm Devouring Heaven Burning Cauldron, his hands hanging down and his head bowed. He dared not say another word, nor did he dare to look at Qin Yu again. The whole world was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.